Is there anything God uses more in our lives than grace-enabled, Spirit-empowered believing meditation on Scripture? To fuel this most important of all disciplines, we must first put the Word of God into our craniums. I can think of four ways to do that: read, hear, study and memorize. By the way, our Lord regularly participated in all four, as any godly Israelite of His day would have. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!In this post we consider 7 tips on hearing God’s Word with maximum benefit. Several of these will apply to the entire worship service each week, not just the climax of expository preaching.

You know how to read but do you really? Reading God’s Word should be a daily activity of God’s people, especially since we have access and really no good excuses not to. We read not to check off the box on our plan, but for the purpose of believing meditation on what we have read. To help us toward that end, I offer you seven tips for impactful Bible reading.